The Luweero Chief Magistrate’s Court led by Gladys Kamasanyu has convicted and sentenced Pastor Sirajje Semanda of Revival Church Bombo and his lawyer Jimmy Arinaitwe to two and half years in prison over fraud.
The court found Semanda and Arinaitwe guilty of defrauding over 400 private school owners and parents of vulnerable children over Shs4 billion.
The two have also been asked to pay a fine worth shs 405 million.
Prosecutar Allan Musinguzi said the convicts used their organisation, Hands Across the World Intiative to defraud over 5,000 victims promising to get them scholarships, trips abroad and connections to Operation Wealth Creation, which was not true.
The prosecution further stated that Semanda together with two others, promised to connect the victims to President Yoweri Museveni.
However, the victims who waited for the promise to be fulfilled in vain would later petition the State House Anti Corruption Unit, which acted swiftly to arrest the pastor and his accomplice.